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Teacher's unions claim that a government plan to change the way | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
schools are funded could mean the region's schools will face | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Hundreds of headteachers have joined a major campaign | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
In Devon, the county council says almost two thirds of children | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
will lose out if the fairer funding formula gets the go ahead. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
With the details here's our political reporter, Anna Varle. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
It's never too young to get engaged in current affairs. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
But this school is amongst hundreds across the region which is taking | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
politics out of the classroom and direct to Westminster. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
In Devon, pupils like me are currently worth ?290 less | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
To make it fairer, the government is looking at changing | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
What we're trying to do is make sure that every single child, | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
wherever they're growing up in England gets the same amount | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
of funding, with then top up in relation to additional needs, | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
whether it's in relation to deprivation, which has been based | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
on out of date data up until now, or indeed additional funding | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
But Devon County Council is one local authority which has | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
And it says, far from being better off, 61.9% | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Why should a Devon child be worth that much less than somebody | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
The government's got to do something about it. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Unions claim the formula, coupled with increasing | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
costs such as inflation, could lead to the region's schools | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
being ?105 million worse off in the next three years. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Which will result in fewer teachers and larger class sizes. | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
That's why headteachers across Devon and Cornwall are sending out letters | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
to parents asking them to get involved and write to their MP. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
You can't sit there and say that it's the school's job to do | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Your children go over, so you've got a bit of a responsibility | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
to make sure you support the school your children go to. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
The more pressure we put on, hopefully the more | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Even Devon's Tory MPs are threatening to oppose | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
If these proposals are adopted, we're going to have 15 | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
primary schools gaining, 20 losing out, and all the secondary | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
This is clearly neither fair nor acceptable. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
The government says that under this new formula, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
schools in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset will benefit. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
The consultation runs until the 22nd of March, | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
and it's keen to hear from parents, schools, governors - | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
And Sunday Politics is on at 11.00am on Sunday morning here on BBC One, | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
with guests Peregrine Mears, Sheryl Murray and Gareth Derrick. | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
How have we arrived at the situation where some schools say they will | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
have left? Who does vary from one local | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
authority to another and also from one school to another. Some think | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
that overall they will gain from the changes but of course there will be | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
winners and losers between individual schools. A similar | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
situation in Somerset. Devon has historically been one of the worst | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
funded authorities in the country and it clearly feels that overall it | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
will emerge even worse off if these proposals go through and one Devon | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
MP said in Parliament recently after all of the years of campaigning, to | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
get this situation changed, to get a fairer result as they see it in | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Devon, nobody really anticipated that when the James finally | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
happened, coming out the other side with Devon being worse off. Devon is | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
far from alone. There are lots of very angry MPs in Westminster from | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
other rural parts of the country that say when you add up the figures | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
schools in their areas are going to be worse off as well. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
Thank you very much for joining us. And Sunday Politics is on at 11.00am | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
on Sunday morning here on BBC One, with guests Peregrine Mears, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Sheryl Murray and Gareth Derrick. A swan has been killed in Exeter | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
in what police say appears The body of the swan was found | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
earlier this week and the news has shocked and angered people | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
who regularly visit and feed them. The birds are a protected species | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
and it's illegal to harm them. If it is, you know, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
a person that has done this, It does unfortunately happen | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
to swans, swans do get attacked and of course | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
it is against the law. All wild birds in the UK | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
are protected under the wildlife countryside act so if people do see | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
any crime against birds, please, Tomorrow's football could provide | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
what's been described by some as the biggest Devon Derby ever | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
between Plymouth Argyle While Argyle may be nine points | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
ahead of their rivals, the Grecians are in top form, | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
having won their last seven games. We have to get the balance right | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
between being overconfident and not. Somewhere in the middle | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
is what is best. I think we have earned | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
the opportunity to be optimistic, but we have got | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
to be really careful. Always a derby match is a special | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
occasion for the whole area. And for a manager and players, | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
it is no different. There will be a full house | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
here tomorrow and both sets of supporters and | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
players are ready for it. And there'll be full commentary | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
of that match on BBC Radio Devon. The colour of our weather | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
at the moment is definitely blue. A widespread frost overnight tonight | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
and a bitterly cold day tomorrow We are importing some | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
pretty low temperatures The weather front trapped | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
in the flow introducing thick enough cloud for a few | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
wintry showers. Some overnight tonight, | :06:11. | :06:11. | |
but not many, and enough clear skies to get those temperatures fairly | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
low, down as low as minus two So a frost first thing tomorrow | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
morning and the best of the sunshine across the more western parts | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
of our region, certainly Cornwall Further east there is quite thick | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
cloud and capable of producing some sleet or snow showers | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
during the day. Some of us getting away with some | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
sunny spells but look at the temperatures, | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
no more than three or four degrees With that cold wind as well | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
it is going to feel bitterly cold. And that cold wind again is with us | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
on Sunday but there is a pool of slightly less cold air | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
across southern parts of France and gradually that | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
will move northwards, not on Sunday though, | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Sunday is another cold day and another very blustery day | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
with a high wind chill. By the time we get into Tuesday | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
and more especially Wednesday of next week then we start to see | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
temperatures come back. Monday could well be a bright | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
and dry and windy day but at least the temperatures | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
are starting to recover. Double figures by the time we get | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
to Tuesday and Wednesday. There'll be more from the Spotlight | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
team, at the earlier time And don't forget, full coverage | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
of the big Devon Derby exception to that rule probably over | :07:18. | :07:35. | |
the hills where again there could be a bit of snow, but not accumulating. | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Another cold However I paint this weekend's | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
picture, I'll need a palette of grey. Thereby a a lot of cloud | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
around but I managed to find some sunshine. I don't know how but there | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
was a couple of hours towards the south-west in Cornwall, a beautiful | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
day. The south-west saw glimpses of sunshine. Further east, cloudy, cold | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
and grey with winds off the North seep and a scattering of wintry | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
showers. Yes, rain sleet and snow, a dusting at lower levels through the | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
day. It | :08:12. | :08:12. |